CVE-2007-6415

Severity: high (CVSS 8.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

scponly 4.6 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended restrictions and execute arbitrary code by invoking scp, as implemented by OpenSSH, with the -F and -o options.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 3.1, 4.0

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=437148
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203099
http://secunia.com/advisories/28538
http://secunia.com/advisories/28944
http://secunia.com/advisories/28981
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-06.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1473
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00546.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00595.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=437148
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203099
http://secunia.com/advisories/28538

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